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June 17th, 2019

rose_griffes: Freema Agyemang wearing a gorgeous green dress (Freema: green dress)
Monday, June 17th, 2019 10:03 pm
I've started digging through the craft room in an attempt to organize things. It is overwhelming. Some things I'm finding easy to put into various "get rid of" piles: donate to charitable organizations, donate to the art or drama teachers at school, pass along to someone I know... but there's still so much in the keep pile.

Aside from thwarted attempts at organization, I've been rather lazy the last few days. Tried to read Darcey Bell's A Simple Favor, but when the story went from dislikable unreliable narrator number one to loathsome unreliable narrator number two, I was done. So I went looking for spoilers--it's hard to put down a mystery or suspense novel, even a bad one, without getting some kind of resolution. Anyway, turns out it was made into a movie last year. ([personal profile] fleurviolette, have you seen it? Henry Golding is in the film.) I don't know if the film plot follows the book plot closely or not, but reading the summary confirmed that putting the book down was a good decision for me.

I finished Diana Peterfreund's For Darkness Shows the Stars. It's a retelling of Austen's Persuasion, with a future post-post-apocalyptic setting. I have very mixed feelings about the world-building; interesting but uncomfortable would be the shortest and best description of how I feel about the setting.

Edited to add: mild spoilers for the setup now in the comments.